How much did MIKE AND SHARON SEELYE FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of MIKE AND SHARON SEELYE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

roof sitnice

2020

children'sbronson health

2021

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2022

kalamazoo valley

2023

kalamazoo valley

2024

food pantrywilliskalamazoo valleygreat lakes

2025

pantryfoodkalamazoo valley

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k36 grants · $108k
$10k–50k4 grants · $70k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$214k

Total assets

Largest grants

GENEROUS HANDS INC$20,000
WILD PAKS$20,000
BRONCOS KITCHEN FOUNDATION$17,500
SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK$12,000
BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$9,500
KALAMAZOO LOAVES AND FISHES$9,500
MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES$7,500
12 BASKETS FOOD PANTRY$7,000
MATTAWAN AREA PANTRY$5,500
COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS$5,000
ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT$3,500
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER KALAMAZOO$3,500
ALTERNATIVES$3,000
MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY$3,000
SPCA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$3,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$863k · 56 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$863k

$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%

+65%

Still filing today

46%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

GH
GENEROUS HANDS INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +93%
KL
KALAMAZOO LOAVES AND FISHES
7× · 2019–2025 · $62k · revenue +61%
BH
BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +131%

Funded once

KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +84%
BH
BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $3k
WF
WILLIS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood

To improve and enhance the physical, social, and economic environment of the eastside section of the city of kalamazoo, michigan to the ends that the community may have a more pleasant, attractive, safe and convenient place to live and…

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Kalamazoo College

The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world.

Education

Kalamazoo County Humane Society

The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to foster an environment of respect, responsibility and compassion for all animals through education, pet population control and leadership.

Animals

Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence

To support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund investments, and empower residents.

Public Benefit

Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy

Heritage Community of Kalamazoo Foundation Inc

To foster an interest in assistance for the aged and to support a continuum of care for seniors

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Klamath Lake Counties Food Bank

To address hunger by providing food to emergency food assistance programs and support other non-profit agencies and their programs that have a positive affect on the lives of children and adults in klamath and lake counties.

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Kalamazoo Christian School

The kalamazoo christian schools, in partnership with christian families and churches, prepare students to serve god responsibly in his world by equipping them with knowledge, skills, and a biblical vision for life, for the advancement of…

Education

Big Lake Community Food Shelf Inc

Distribute food to those in need

Human Services

Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

Can-Do Kalamazoo

Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Food & Nutrition

Kanza Mental Health and Guidance

Kanza mental health is a community based mental health counseling center. our competent and dependable staff are goal-oriented and solution-focused. we provide confidential, affordable treatment that accurately deals with today's issues…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bronson Methodist Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

130/1,671

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/33

Grantees still filing

24/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$564,511Food & Nutrition$203,340Health$68,394Human Services$32,237Animals$23,750Recreation & Sports$17,644Youth Development$15,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI59.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MIKE AND SHARON SEELYE FAMILY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GENEROUS HANDS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~21 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +93% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201887278 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GENEROUS HANDS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 21 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MIKE AND SHARON SEELYE FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation?

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MIKE AND SHARON SEELYE FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph